Author Mike Rusetsky – horror with heart (and teeth)

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Q3 Report

Reading Time: 5 minutesHi Reader Friends, It’s your favorite neighborhood Ukrainian-American speculative fiction author, Mike Rusetsky. I’m crawling out from the deep dark cave with news of recent and upcoming releases! Some of these are free and you can read them right now! Others will be dropping in the next month or so. Regardless, I’ve…
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Life Update

Reading Time: 5 minutesHi reader friends, I debated myself for a long time about putting this update out there. After all, this is not a personal blog but my author website, reserved for sharing my creative ventures, literary musings, and silly speculative stories. But that’s the thing about boundaries: they are difficult to keep at…
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The Book Nook Strikes Back: My Top 3 Book Series Recommendations

Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not going to lie, reader friends: life be lifin’ as of late. 2026 has been a relentlessly difficult year for my personal life. My creative writing career, however, has been thriving. This has established a dissonance that will surely enrich many of my future fictional works with great character development, but…
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My Debut Novella!

Reading Time: 3 minutesReader friends, what a special time we live in! I’m excited to report that after publishing 33 short stories and essays (vast majority in anthologies and magazines), I finally get to publish a standalone novella! This is tremendous news, as I’ve dreamed of having my own name on the cover (with nobody…
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